One more thing. A movie should really avoid glaring impossibilities, especially in what are supposed to be poignant moments. Here, Gogol has gone to his father's temporary apartment (the father accepted a semester-long teaching appointment at another college) to collect his things after identifying his father's body at the morgue (the father died of a heart attack without warning). Gogol has a vision of his father leaning his hand against the wall above his shoes, sliding on his brown oxfords, and walking out the door. This vision mimics what we see happen earlier, before his father goes to the hospital. After the vision, Gogol walks over to the wall and slips on the same shoes and walks around the apartment. What should be a poignant, nice, symbolic "walking in his shoes" moment is severely undercut by the fact that the father walked out the door in those shoes and, therefore, Gogol should have brought them back in a bag of his dead father's belongings--they could not have been at the wall.
There was something else like this that was wrong but I can't think of it at the moment . . . .
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